Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.